Congressman. Our next guest of the morning is representative garret graves of louisiana and here to talk about what happens when the areas of the country get ravaged by storms. Could you give us yours experience in louisiana and take us back to what you did before you came to congress . Sure. We have a wlabd slachbd surveyi company, so ive spent my whole life in the unique terrain. But a few jobs back, i was responsible for largely restoring the coastal wetlands following 2005 hurricanes. One of the largest projects in u. S. History. And made extraordinary progress helping to improve the resilience of the communities and of the ecosystem in south louisiana. What did you learn about the federal governments role in those situations from the job that you did . It is backwards. The entire parra dichl how we approach disaster is backwards. We end up spending billions following a disaster rather than spending millions being proactive and improving the resilience of our communities. And there
Month lows, three and a half month lows, today up 4. 25 . At these levels the are they bee more cautionary on wall street . That being said when you look at the s p 500, there is resistance at the 1802 level. While 1800 sounds like a great level, the traders and analysts looking at 1802 as the resistance area. Lori thank you so much, nicole. Dennis a stock alert. We are watching of microsoft on a downgrade from comerica merrill lynch. Cut in the stock to underperform on neutral citing challenges to the you have to be named ceo. Tech giant may be getting closer to replacing steve ballmer. Meeting today to narrow down that list of candidates ahead of tomorrows shareholder meeting. Lori and sonys new playstations off a strong start, over 1 million councils sold within 24 hours lunch. The speed is the first updated videogame system in seven years. Dennis hoping to sell 5 million by march. Reports of some glitches here and there, but they say this is within expectations of a new Product Lau
Passed for strengthening manufacturing in this country because the wto hobby was violative of the wto. So we try to replace the pen that was also found to be wto violative. So then we passed the present action. At the last minute, oil and gas was placed in the air. It had nothing to do with manufacturing. It was done in the wee hours. We were stuck with days you want a replacement which will have manufactured this country, including oil and gas are you going to vote against the whole dang thing . Accepted a compromise. It has to be extracted talking about oil and gas. Not the last question. Im sorry, francine. [inaudible] everything you run out of tax reform process has been out with a has to measure to make them maybe not impossible, but much less likely to tax reform goes forward this year. Is that basically what you believe . If you could say a word about why tax reform should go forward. What do you see as the upside of that . Im not saying that. What im saying is they think we too
That he would fight for a College Football playoff system which we also raided a promise kept indeed, you could say this is the aggregate and you need to look in on the more narrow numbers. We published an article yesterday but we welcome anybody who wants to tally them up in different ways and provide an analysis. All promises are not created equal. Host we are looking at the top promises on politifact tell us more about compromise. Guest the credit for workers is a tax credit that was part of the economic stimulus originally, he sought 500 and i think ultimately, law was less than that. That was a classic compromise that he did not get. Another compromise was his promise to repeal the bush tax cuts for higher income. His goal was couples making more than 200th 50,000 or couples making 200,000 and the fiscal cliff deal did not achieve that. We rented that a compromise. Lets go to fort lauderdale,. Caller with respect to not keeping a promise for negotiations with a health kicce i thin
Mayors and ladies and gentlemen. It is, of course, my distinct honor and pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce our good friend and my good friend, Vice President joe biden. Throughout his career as a public servant, Vice President biden has championed issues that are critical to the prosperity and growth of americas cities, and he has engaged directly with the u. S. Conference of mayors on a regular basis. During our annual meeting this past june in orlando, Vice President biden pledged that the Obama Administration would make sure that future Infrastructure Investments are more targeted to local areas. In november, last year, the Vice President hosted our leadership in the white house to discuss the fiscal cliff and the concerns of mayors regarding both investment programs and taxexempt financing. Whenever theres a major issue that demands attention, again and again and again, Vice President joe biden has shown the leadership and courage needed to help move our nation in the r